Tag: Neurons
A Daring Course of Treatment
They cooled Kevin Everett down and then they operated. How quick-thinking doctors used some unproven interventions to help save a young football player with...
Paralysis victim ‘returned to life’
As he'd done so many times before, Jonah Shea tackled the chilly waters of Cape Cod Bay by running and diving in head first.
The...
A Step Forward In Understanding Tissue Damage After Spinal Cord Injury
Acute spinal cord injury can damage spinal cord tissue and result in loss of functions such as mobility or feeling.
In a study appearing online...
Walking The Walk
Harvard senior Allison Kessler, 22, had to take a break from serving as coxswain of her university's men's rowing team this semester. She wanted...
First steps on a long road
One evening this March, at a military hospital in northeast China, Paraplegic Jason McCue moved his legs.
It happened when the 31-year-old Calgarian was watching...
Blood clotting protein may inhibit spinal cord regeneration
Fibrinogen, a blood-clotting protein found in circulating blood, has been found to inhibit the growth of Central Nervous System neuronal cells, a process that...
Nanomedicine opens the way for nerve cell regeneration
The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way. In two presentations...
Human stem cell treatment restores motor function in paralyzed rats
Rats paralyzed due to loss of blood flow to the spine returned to near normal ambulatory function six weeks after receiving grafts of human...
Q Therapeutics Wins Biotechnology Innovation Award for 2007
SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Q Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has been awarded the 2007 Utah Innovation Award for Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals. The award honors Q's...
What is the spinal cord and the vertebra?
The spinal cord is about 18 inches long and extends from the base of the brain, down the middle of the back, to about...
